BRAZOS HEALING CENTER
E-Mail: info[at]brazoshealing.com / Phone: (979) 739-4338
Location: 1602 Rock Prairie Road, Suite 1000 (East Professional Building next door to College Station Medical Center)
Hours: Open during scheduled classes/events/workshops and by appointment. See our calendar for our schedule.
The mission of the Brazos Healing Center is to support those in the greater Brazos Valley community seeking a central place to:
- access complementary medical therapies and holistic health care consulting
- learn more about various methods to enhance one’s personal development, and
- meet others to exchange ideas for balancing and strengthening the mind-body-spirit connection.
Services offered include holistic healing classes, workshops and events on topics such as yoga, energy therapy, meditation, mindfulness, and wellness. We also offer energy therapy treatments using Reiki energy therapy and Healing Touch. Private classes and consultations are available to guide and support on an individual level each client’s wellness goals. More services will be added in the future, so stay tuned!
Click here to get the e-mail updates on the Brazos Healing Center’s happenings: classes, workshops, and special offers.
FOUNDERS
Filipa Lakos, RN, MSN, AHN-BC
Lisa Tauferner, MA, Registered Yoga Teacher, Usui Reiki Master
Filipa
Since 2004, New Orleans native, Filipa Lakos, has called College Station her home. Prior to living in College Station, Filipa has worked as a RN at MD Anderson Cancer center in Houston from 2001-2004, primarily working with leukemia and critical care patients. She currently works at BCS Heart for Dr. Marcel Lechin. Filipa received a Masters degree in Nursing with concentration in holistic nursing from Tennessee State University in Nashville in 2008. She also achieved Advanced Holistic Nurse certification (AHN-BC) also in 2008.
Filipa has been teaching Vinyasa flow yoga since November of 2006. She is certified through YogaFit and has attended workshops and teacher trainings in both Anusara yoga and restorative yoga.
She enjoys teaching beginner to intermediate-advanced levels of Vinyasa flow, restorative and senior yoga.
Filipa is also a level 1 Reiki energy therapy practitioner, level 2 healing touch practitioner and well versed in the techniques of guided imagery, aromatherapy, mindful breathing and clinical hypnotherapy. She tries to incorporate elements of these techniques into her yoga classes as appropriate.
Her goal for all the individuals she interacts with “on the mat” is that they achieve a sense of health and well-being through positive lifestyle changes that can be realized through yoga and the yoga lifestyle. They can trust in her ability to guide them through this process with knowledge and expertise in both health-illness and wellness.
Click here to read more about Filipa’s yoga classes and here to read more about the holistic lifestyle consulting offered by Filipa.
Lisa
Lisa began practicing yoga when she took an instructional class at the Texas A&M Rec Center in 1996 and finally found a lifetime practice to cultivate and maintain awareness of the mind-body connection. She has been teaching yoga since 2001 when she obtained her first 200-hour teaching certification in Kundalini Yoga through Yoga Yoga in Austin, TX. In 2004, she obtained another 200-hour certification in Hatha Yoga through the same studio and has since taken workshops from prominent yoga teachers such as Gary Kraftsow and Gurucharan Singh Khalsa. She is currently working toward her 500-hour yoga certification.
Since 2001, Lisa has taught yoga classes of various levels and sizes including one-on-one and duo/trio private yoga classes: ”Teaching yoga is a wonderful way to share a practice that has given me so much personally and I enjoy watching students progress and learn both on and off the mat through yoga’s principles. It helps me every day to understand and apply the following principle: a teacher is only as effective as his or her ability to understand where the student is.”
Click here to read more about Lisa’s yoga classes.
Lisa is a certified Master Reiki practitioner and teacher, which is a form of energy therapy. This healing practice has helped her to maintain a healthy balance in her own life while transforming her understanding of how well-being is available to all. In addition to energy therapy and yoga, Lisa incorporates other mindfulness/meditation studies into her classes to included guided visualization, breathing practices, stress/pain management and other relaxation techniques.
STAFF
Marnie Krajicek, RYT in Hatha Yoga, RCYP and Certified in Level II Reiki
Marnie
Marnie took her first yoga class in the mid 1990s at the old Manor East Mall in Bryan with Bobby Lane. What started out as a way to decrease physical tension and pain gradually led to a more mental practice. These days, it’s not just the physical postures helping Marnie through life – she continues her practice “off the mat” on a daily basis in the way that she carries herself through the world both in strength and flexibility, ever mindful that it’s progress not perfection that counts. Marnie’s training and teaching of yoga to children began in 2006 when she was asked to incorporate yoga in the Montessori classroom at her daughter’s school thus combining two passions in life, yoga and teaching (Marnie also taught 5 years in the middle school classroom). She has been teaching yoga to both the teachers and children at Aggieland Country School ever since: “It brings me great joy to watch the children progress in their awareness each year. They teach me to stress less, giggle more, relax, and enjoy the journey.” Marnie also offers yoga classes for adults at Expressions Dance Studio.
Click here to read more about Marnie’s yoga classes.
Marnie is certified in Reiki level 1 and 2 which is a form of energy therapy.
Please visit the Brazos Valley Yoga Connection to find out more yoga classes in Bryan and College Station.
